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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1914
Page
5
One or more burglars staged a hide and seek stunt at 9 Wellman Street Brookline yesterday afternoon dodging occupants and making off with about $500 worth of silverware and watches belonging to the Hugh L Boardman family who live on the top floor
Mr and Mrs Boardman found their lower apartment entered with the front door jimmed and the back door forced open. They suspect burglars entered the lower unit belonging to William Butler and fled after hearing them approach, having taken nothing.
More than 200 Harvard students remain in Cambridge over the holidays and attend a Christmas Eve reception hosted by President and Mrs Lowell. Miss Marie G. P. O Connell, daughter of J Philip O Connell of Roslindale, a junior at the New England Conservatory of Music, stars as soloist in the Miracle of St Nicholas with French lecture by Professor Sichlemberger. The program features C Pol Plancon baritone and a conservatory chorus, coached by Mons Lenom, with a giant Christmas tree in the president's ballroom.
About 3000 residents gathered on Merrimac Common as Mayor Charles C. Hayes formally christened the municipal Christmas tree a large hemlock from northern Maine. The tree was lit with colored electric lights for the ceremony in Manchester.
Everett police investigated a reported robbery attempt on Hosmer street involving Albert J. Cahill a diamanté merchant of 142 Vernal street Everett and with offices at 21 Bromfield street Boston.
Police on foot and by car chased a suspected burglar after Cahill, carrying a diamond case, spied a shadowy man near 23 Hosmer Street. Cahill confronted the stranger, who feigned drunkenness and fled, leading to a two mile pursuit through the city streets.
Cahill observed a man entering yards and climbing fences near Winter and Clinton streets. He appealed to a policeman, an alarm was raised, and Lt. Palmer with officers conducted a citywide search for the suspect.
On the 100th anniversary of the Ghent treaty a wreath of four evergreens native to Oregon was placed on John Quincy Adams’s grave in Quincy. Wreaths were also laid at the graves of Henry Clay in Lexington and Albert Gallatin in New York. The ceremonies occurred simultaneously in Quincy New York and Lexington with officials from the Massachusetts Historical Society Columbia University and a Kentucky university taking part.
Boston Y M C A and Union members enjoyed a Christmas program last night. C I Burrill presided as State Treasurer elect and Union secretary. Irvin L Potter oversaw the elocution readings for the audience.
Boston police arrest Warren J. Tilford, 45, a Fulton street turkey dealer, in a $20,000 swindle involving larceny by false pretenses of turkeys valued at 1975 and butter and eggs valued at 600 from two firms. He operated as Tilford & Co with branch stores and used varied aliases to gain credit.
A man pursued by Boston officers reached Gloucester where arrest followed a stubborn resistance. He broke a window at his Gloucester branch store during the attempt to escape. Tilford, said to have duped Boston merchants, had closed his Boston shop and planned to leave. He also operated similarly in Portland and Beverly. He faces past arrests and is on parole from Charlestown State prison.
Over a hundred Christmas shoppers rushed to lift an electric car at the head of Milk Street to free William J. Murray of Winchester who had slipped and fallen under the moving vehicle.
A 65 year old man named Murray died after slipping near Milk and Washington streets and being struck by an approaching Broadway Extension streetcar. Police Officer Sheehan and O A Loyd assisted, with an ambulance taking him to Relief Hospital where he died an hour later. The car was operated by Conductor James Mace and Motorman 5163, as rescuers pulled Murray from beneath the forward truck cross piece.
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